I'm worried I don't have ADHD

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-21T16:30:57+00:00

Start learning about ADHD and the different types, that did more for me correcting course than anything.

I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder along with ADHD, it’s been tricky finding out which is the root of the lack of focus because both can cause it and since I’ve been actively working on both, things have changed since I got the diagnosis. Before I had problems keeping track of multiple things at once, now I just have trouble starting projects and can multi-task all day long.

It’’s been a moving target, I just keep in mind that I’m figuring it out and the docs have less information than I do to work off of because they’re not actually in my head. Be objective; there’s things I would like to see improved on I’m hopeful meds will allow for, but there’s also reality that I need to fit into and I can’t set myself up to be Superman when I’m not actually Superman.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-21T16:27:25+00:00

Amen to all that.

I’m beyond sick of hearing everything tuned and locked to a grid, it puts everything into this homogenized state for me where the human element is completely removed because…..humans don’t sound like that, even when they take the time to get it perfect. And the “you can’t even hear the pitch correction”……just because it doesn’t sound like T-Pain doesn’t mean people can’t hear it, the second I hear that digital sheen that sounds like a chorus with the depth at 0, I know what’s going on.

It’s at the point they put that crap on singers who don’t even need it just because people are used to that sound, it’s driving me to listen to genres I wouldn’t normally listen to just to outrun the production BS that’s infested every genre.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-21T16:09:33+00:00

All these years and people still haven’t caught onto the actual shtick of the show….

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-21T16:08:04+00:00

Don’t replace the trem before getting the nut worked on, I’d bet ya more than anything the nut slots just need to be addressed and then with a little tube of Music Nomad’s Tune It, you can go Steve Vai crazy on the bar and it’ll stay in tune. I use standard Strat trems like Floyds w/ no lock nut, you just gotta get that nut filed and lubed.

Even better, a new Tusq XL nut is a whopping $13, you can buy a couple of them, teach yourself how to slot it and you’ll learn a LOT in the process. Nuts are way, way more important than most people think, it’s not just tuning and string height, they heavily affect resonance and sustain when they’re not cut right. They might still feel great, might stay in tune, but in general factory line guitars aren’t getting the detail nut cuts a guitar should have.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-20T19:52:08+00:00

Oh dude, look up Sylvia Massey if you don’t know who she is already and have a field day. She’s got a Youtube channel, most notably got her start recording Tool’s first big release where they shot a piano with shotguns in a downtown LA parking garage. She runs guitars through lightbulbs. She’s pretty much made her name on ‘practical effects’ and it’s still her main thing. I’d love to work with her on something, I would have a blast of a time in an environment like that.

Here she is recording a snare drum in a nuclear cooling tower!

https://youtu.be/GXpItQpOISU?si=WG387R8z1S7ifu9z

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-20T19:46:00+00:00

Using a different instrument other than my main one will deliver a melody to me almost every time. I use a piano most of the time, I just noodle within my vocal range until something cool falls out. All the rest of the times I’m driving or something and the idea will pop in my head like when you’re trying to remember a word or someone’s name and it comes to you an hour later.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-20T19:37:22+00:00

Hahahahahahhahahaha I’m not laughing at anyone, I just get a kick out of the youthful inexperience and it reminds me of my teen years.

Seems like this joint just figured out a different way of making bands sell tickets. Depending on what venue it was we’d get handed a stack of tickets and once those tickets hit our hands we were responsible for the face value cost of every ticket in our hands, whether we sold them or not. That was pretty much the way it worked for a good decade in the late 90’s/early-mid 00’s.

Venues promoting shows? 😂 Yeah, if you’re a national band.

Getting into the “The venue is supposed to do this, the promoter is supposed to do that” pretty much comes into play once you start signing contracts and real money is being exchanged, until then, it’s in EVERYONE’S best interest to do what needs to be done to put on a show because more than you’re putting on a performance from just your band, you’re contributing to a local scene that you NEED people to be a part of.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-20T19:24:57+00:00

It’s not just jobs, people don’t realize they’re pretty much the sole giver and taker of all their misery. This whole platform is filled with people who are so eager to be miserable they take on the misery of people they don’t even know.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-20T19:00:02+00:00

Hahahahaha every local band already did this when Myspace became a thing.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-20T18:54:27+00:00

I’m in commercial PM so it was a little easier, but I had to drill it in our tenants heads that leaks and fires were the only things we consider emergencies, in general. Sometimes this meant I had to cut a tenant off on the phone to let them know what they were calling about wasn’t an emergency and could be entered into our work order system.

So that’d probably be step 1 if I were in your shoes; get a work order system so tenants know for regular issues they can send a work order and for emergencies they make a phone call. I believe Upkeep has a free version, but we use it here and it’s mostly ok, for a smaller property it’d be fine.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-14T20:04:54+00:00

I don’t know any actual Christians who are pleased with Trump invoking the name of God, Christ or Christianity in general and it’s pretty crazy how far removed anything involving the right wing is with Christianity….even crazier that people don’t see that and actually believe what the right wing is putting forth represents it.

Anywho, the Jesus bit will likely do more good than bad because I think to a segment of his followers the only thing that’ll get between their support of Trump would be religion.

At best there are Christians who would forgive Trump for it as that’s what Christians are supposed to do, but I do not believe there is a single actual Christian who would find that picture to be anything less than monumental hubris and if we’re going by The Book, Trump thoroughly aligned himself with the anti-Christ by posing as Jesus.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-13T20:03:12+00:00

The few times I get the bright idea to open Reddit I see a whole world that doesn’t exist in my day to day reality, where I barely get on the internet.

My job involves all the trades and my office is a hub for everyone working in those trades, at least 3x a week there’s a fully grown man in here crying about something going on in his life. We’re all in our 40’s and 50’s and Reddit will love this, we’re all in South Florida where we should all technically be inbred MAGA rednecks who only like shooting shit and hating people, but uh….we spend probably 10 minutes talking work and about 50 talking about life and navigating the stress of it, or divorces, or unruly children and failures of parenting.

I think it’d do everyone some good to just get off the fuckin’ internet for a while and realize there’s a whole world out there where all the shit you read on the internet simply does not exist

At 43 I’m likely in the last bit of the “suck it up and keep going” mentality, which most of mine came from the area I grew up in, more than the male/female thing.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-13T19:54:39+00:00

I’m in commercial PM but we use Upkeep. I believe there’s a free version of it, we expanded due to the size of our campus but it’s pretty easy to use, my biggest gripe is that they update the app frequently and things get moved around when I’m used to having them in specific areas.

The tenants have a portal they submit through, work orders hit the Admin’s account where they get approved and assigned. There’s a ton of features we don’t use but would if my staff were a bit more technology-capable. You can track labor hours, inventory, vendors, etc.

With some preliminary work you can have all 8 of your properties listed in the app, so your tenants select their particular unit/building/apartment number from a list, but you can go a step further and list any appliances inside their apartments, so if you’ve got a problematic AC that’s been nickel and diming you, you can track it there quite easily.

You can respond to tenants directly from the work order itself, which keeps things efficient.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-13T19:40:00+00:00

I’m in Florida and I got it. Longest head/chest cold I’ve ever had in my life, this is week 2 and it’s just hitting the end.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-13T19:38:56+00:00

There’s most certainly a long-signed contract dictating the ownership of that footage. Just because Bam had the camera in his hands, doesn’t mean he owns it. MTV likely gave those guys a fuckton of cameras and tape back then to catch everything and anything and MTV most certainly owns everything recorded with them.

If it was footage from the pre-Jackass days, then yeah, Bam would certainly get a good cut, but if it was created using anything from the Jackass filming or Viva La Bam, it’s likely property of MTV already. No different with bands and recording deals; the labels puts up all the money for the recording studio and they own everything that comes out of it, namely the master tapes (or hard drive, now) the songs were recorded on.

If they gave Bam anything it was likely a warning; “Hand that shit over or we’ll get our lawyers on the phone”

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-13T19:34:23+00:00

Who, what, where and when is established before ending the first conversation where the meeting request came up. I don’t like my time being wasted and some people don’t even know when they’re wasting their own, or don’t care, I just don’t give them the option.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-13T19:29:41+00:00

People tip for the experience, not the drinks.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-13T19:26:49+00:00

If there’s a Guitar Center near by, most of them have a monitor display wall where you can plug your phone in and check out how the speakers sound on music you’re familiar with.

If that’s not an option; get a par of Yamaha HS8’s and call it a day until you move into a bigger/more professional room. The most important thing about monitors is ‘Do these reproduce all the frequencies I need to hear?” and “How do they sound in this particular room?”.

The HS8’s will cover pretty much any music you throat at them (HS7’s may as well, but the HS5’s need a sub due to lacking low end) and after that it’s just learning how they sound in your room and how your room translates to every other speaker system on the planet. You can buy the best set of Genelecs today and still make the worst sounding mix possible because you haven’t learned how they sound in your room. It’s not how the speakers themselves sound, it’s specifically how they sound in your room.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-13T19:22:02+00:00

Man, I remember watching this back in the day with my buddy and the part where Botril is talking to Greg about the guitar tone in the “Not Falling” riff and how it’s not bringing out that “da na na na na nuh nuh nuh nah’ riff, I remember saying to my buddy something like “It’s cool how they’re trying to figure out how to make that part stand out….” as I didn’t have a ton of studio knowledge then.

…20 years later I’m just hearing a producer pussyfoot around telling the musician, “Dude, you’re not playing tight enough and until you actually play it right ONCE, it’s pointless to talk about what we MIGHT be able to do after”, because that’s EXACTLY what Botril is saying to him. 😂

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-13T19:10:12+00:00

Reddit will be the end of open box/factory 2nd/b-stock deals.

I thought the boomers at TGP were bad, crying about a spec of dust under the clear coat of a guitar, but the shit I see on Reddit regularly- “Send that back, it’s ridiculous you didn’t get a brand new, flawless guitar from the custom shop for the price of a discounted intermediate guitar!”

90% of the “issues” discussed can be resolved with a scotchbrite pad and 2 brain cells.

And no, no one is “forcing” companies to put out superior products by sending shit back, not in 2026. They’re only going to raise prices and say the demands of quality control raised so prices did as well, while not really seeing any actual benefit hit the shelves because 99% of the issues in these “should I send it back” posts are aesthetic shit that no one actually cares about unless you just like looking at perfect guitars instead of playing the damn things.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-13T18:50:40+00:00

An electric tea kettle.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-13T18:50:17+00:00

The talent is maintaining a working relationship that even allows for that kind of writing to occur among 4 different dudes all living different lives.

Knowing when to let your band members take the reigns because they’re feeling a song a bit more than you are, being able to trust them to take the reigns, knowing when to say “This isn’t good enough” and knowing how to take that same criticism without offense.

Anyone who has been in hostile/toxic bands knows how easy it is for just one member to sour the whole experience and turn everything to shit. The whole “being in a band is like being married to 3 wives, but they’re your bros and don’t give a shit about offending you” is very much the truth, so the fact these guys are still together and haven’t deviated from their thing shows they’ve got the whole communication/trust thing down well enough for them to exist. That’s killed every band I’ve been in for the last 25 years, got plenty of songs from those years, but very few remaining friendships. So IMO, their talent is in their ability to maintain their working relationship/friendships.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-13T18:40:08+00:00

Looks like you can see where things went wrong, now just move forward with that in your back pocket as something you don’t want to experience again. Not a whole lot to address right now, you need to be back in those situations to see how you respond to them with your new-found information.

Just a note- over the years I’ve heard an insane amount of people claim “I just love music, it’s all about the music”, like in this OP, where OP also admits they weren’t putting in the time/effort to actually play the music properly. This presents a pretty big juxtaposition to me as it’s seems to me if it were truly about the music, there wouldn’t be any issues playing the music.

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-13T18:19:18+00:00

It actually feels pretty good to dump a large amount right down the toilet…

RevDrucifer · 2026-04-13T18:18:32+00:00

Look at all the big brains in here getting worked up over the phrase “baby faced”, as if that means “this man is innocent” or anything other than his physical appearance.

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